Rivers State governor, Nyesom Wike says it is an act of anti-party on the part of the national leadership of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to tell lawyers handling legal suits on behalf of the PDP in the state to dissociate themselves from the cases.
NEWSBREAK reports that Governor Wike made the accusation while speaking at State School Premises, Okehi 1, venue of the Rivers State PDP campaign flag-off rally in Etche Local Government Area (LGA) on Monday.
The Rivers State governor stated that instead of the PDP national leadership supporting the suits by the PDP in Rivers, it asked lawyers handling the various legal matters to withdraw legal representations.
“We have caught them. They are the ones engaged in anti-party. I told them anti-party begets anti party. You know we carried these small parties (All Progressives Congress, APC; and the Social Democratic Party, SDP) to court for failing to do what the law says.
“The people in Abuja that say they are national have gone to collude with them (opposition parties) to write our lawyers a letter that they should take their hands off, in order to kill the cases we filed.
“I have told our lawyers to withdraw from the matters. I will hit them back by tomorrow (Tuesday).
“Nobody hurts us without sustaining a scar. Anybody who dares to touch us in Rivers State, I will inflict many scars on him and we have started it.
“We are voting for our people here. Now you have told us you are doing anti-party. We will show you what anti party is. Already, we have caught them red-handed,” Wike said.
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